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  1. Hope your grands find good employment, LittleSister. Necie, do you use essential oils for your soaps - peppermint...apple cinnamon. It snowed again most of today. But it really isn't accumulating. Warmer now. DH came home today very much in pain from back. Next week he's going to split the days he works with client so it's not two days in a row. Better for client - dishes don't stack up as much. One day is always the ride on the disability bus which wrecks his back with such stiff suspension. Fortunately I'm doing pretty well - as opposed to this time last year. So I go down for ducks/goose and walk dog. Everywhere is MUD or Snow. No forest fires in this season. Mom had another adventure..... see in Talked to life-long friend for 2-3 hrs today on the End of Times. Her novacaine from dental work was wearing off so we had to hang up. Pretty good day. MtRider
  2. We snowed all day ...and all thru last nite actually too. But it's the bitty stuff and we've gotten maybe 4". And since the last big snow has been melting in a lot of places, this is melting quickly. We still have snow 'mountains' all over the property. We'll have some til June! My great nephew on DH's side was marveling at that one summer. Had great talk with Mom this afternoon. She called me! Much more alert but a few things she was going on about were....not this side of reality. I just listened and put in my input. But so much better. She was sitting up in her chair. Finally Fed Ex got the foot pegs to my wheelchair delivered to ......well they left the box - in a big plastic clear bag - at the bottom of the driveway. 3" of snow? Phish! That's nothing dude! But I took the car and went down to put more feed/water to the ducks/goose and found it. I also walked the dog...with some difficulty, to the end of our property and back. She was all wet by the time we went back up to the house. DH worked with a client 5 hrs and came home with a sore but not crazy hurt back. He's able to adjust it and then it's much better. He took it easy at the client's ....he's had him before and knows he can sit when he has to. So...it's been a pretty good day. I'm thinking this snow might melt, since we've had a lot of the frost come outta the ground already. It's still soaking in the BIG snow melting. Wondering if we need the snow plowed this time. Depend on when the NEXT one comes thru. Drat, was going to wash my hair today. Didn't get to that. Tomorrow. Our ladies from Bible study are having a brunch on Wed. Before that for sure! Been a long couple of weeks! Everyone will have stories to tell of deep snow and complications. One had her house catch fire but got it put out. Sheesh! MtRider ...gotta do Hawaiian and then bed.
  3. Um....it's SNOWING again. Got the driveway alllllllll cleared and melted. Not dry, mind you. Lots of snow mountains lining the driveway. Nearly a tunnel in some places. ....well, they are high anyway. Taller than me. Gonna have to find my MIA snowplow guy...cuz it's hard to find a new one, especially in a year like this. Especially with an odd/difficult driveway like ours. Especially since ramming snow with a plow blade requires some speed...and knowing where the edges are. DH's heart issues have settled down and he goes back to work with a nearby client Mon/Tues. He'll only be able to do what he can. Can't set it off again. Hopefully this snow won't get too bad....deep. We've got a couple inches at this point. But we're in the zone that could get more. Envy your planting and such already, BeccaAnne! Oye! We're in the snowfall of the decade and you're already planting. Well, that's the Rocky Mts. Hope you have good luck this year and can get chickens safely barricaded. for Annarchy's household. It's a tighter squeeze and different schedules but pray that it will be a precious time. Glad you aced that test, Jeepers! I think most of us would ace that one! I hope!! Put the rest of life-from-where-I-sit in the Blue Couch. MtRider ....this crazy storm is all over the place. Hard to anticipate how much snow we'll get.
  4. That's one of the current ILLOGICAL ISSUES that gets me crazy in 3.5 seconds. Jeepers, I see our Late Nite Club is meeting again..... I'm really tired and it makes it harder to get up and get into bed! MtRider ..yeah, yeah.....
  5. Had a WONDERFUL ride today. Sunny and actually, warm. I was dressed for it and took off my coat during part of the ride. Snow in a lot of places but no ice. Brought home a pizza....starving. The sun is being covered with clouds right now. The weather maps show a big storm system falling out of western Canada onto Montana, Dakotas, Minnesota.... Wyoming and CO are getting a batch too...soon. There's some snow showing up in the high country of eastern CA. I'd rather not get more snow right away but, can't control the weather. Today was very nice. Miki...is "A ninja" one of your dogs or your relatives' dog or....I don't think you'd be walking a cat. Hope you're having a great time with your family. Little Sister....kinda gives me an ache when you describe your knee or shoulder. Ow! don't over do it! Keep it at a level where it is still possible to heal it.....when you can get to the ortho. Water barrels sound like a success! Necie....I'm beginning to hate stairs too. Too easy to miss or trip or just the exertion. One level living ..... My idea is all on one floor but dug into a hillside so you'd still have a "basement - cool" area. Without stairs! I'm tired. Fresh air and sunshine. Did I mention my mom's in the hospital again. She can't drink or eat enough. Cognitively, she thinks she's drinking/eating. Not. So she's in for rehydration and encouraged to EAT! Old taste buds aren't working so nothing much is tasty to her. And....she's just tired. In her 90's and functions pretty well but ...just worn out. MtRider
  6. I get to RIDE tomorrow. Total surprise cuz I thot the mountain would be snow-packed yet. Maybe it is and we're going on an adventure. Dunno but after all the dealing with snow and DH's heart acting up, I NEED a ride....or two...or three. Seriously. I did walk the road with dog tonite. Just did the ducks too so DH didn't have to move. He was on the floor with "SOT" blocks. Chiro term but it's two wedges that he puts in strategic places to shift spine while laying on back on floor. Self adjustment. Glad he can still do that. His heart hasn't completely calmed down yet so he's still trying to rest. And the forecast for Sun - Mon = ..........drum roll.......more snow! The weather guys/gals are waffling on the amounts. Meanwhile on one of those Neighborhood Gab sites, someone posted a lot of stuff to get done BEFORE the storm hits again. Great. And I'm not sure if our guy is up and running or what! THOUGHT we had a snowplow guy. Heard one of them broke a leg; another had engine trouble; others had different problems during this last blast. Hope the broken leg wasn't our guy!!! It's hard to switch to a new person mid-winter. You need to be established with one. They know the oddities of this driveway in winter. Weather person said it would be up to one foot. That's gonna need plowing. Are we done with March yet? April or even May doesn't mean it will be better. El Nino year is wetter for this region than La nina. But..... (almost unhappy about it...almost) we haven't lost power. Want to try out the battery station. Just lost our plow guy....which is worse. Can't believe they're going out on a ride tomorrow. Need to go to bed and sleep. {last nite was in bed/ lights off by 11:30pm. ......... Didn't get to sleep until 3am ....kept getting overheated and such. Changed what I was wearing and took 1/2 Unisom. Then went to sleep. Had my Unisom for tonite so ..... MtRider ....
  7. YAY!!! We're FREE! After last nite's slog up our mountain...er, I mean, driveway ended with me coughing and breathing with pain, I needed to move on this issue. Put out a 'help' call to the church folks. Does anyone know a snow removal person up here who has time to finish our driveway? Yep, got to referrals. Texted both. One texted right back and was "just down the road a piece". Well, probably 10 miles but he finished there and came right over. He was hauling a skid steer on a trailer. Wow, he operated that thing like it was part of his own body. With the raised bucket, he could dump the snow over and behind the growing snow mountains from snow just being pushed to the edges. And when the tracks...not wheels...started to slide on the slant, he moved everything at once to straighten and pull up out of the dip. Even uses the scoop in front to shove the cabin part backwards. So we're completely cleared now. And we both kinda stood on the porch and watched the sun turn what's left into water running down the lane. We've still got huge piles of snow all over. But we can get the car out -- to the village. Post Office had a package to pick up. Market supplied a few things we ran out of...fresh things. We could have holed up for a long time but ....I missed another appt today; had to push it back a week. Just happened on the busy week. DH was feeling his heart by the time he climbed up our narrow trail after dealing with the ducks/goose earlier this morning. That's what canceled my appt. He knows when he has to "lay low" for a few days. Canceled with his client these next two days as well. Old man on the mountain needs to be careful. He's ok but .... 'Nuff of this walking down and UP this driveway! Yay, skid steer! Never saw one in action with snow before. MtRider ....not riding but I am certainly on the mountain.
  8. Very strange day. DH did the ducks/goose this morning. Still no word from S about plowing. I'm getting hyper cuz we needed to leave for neurology appt and still can't even get out of the driveway. Road grader or plow sprayed a huge amount of snow at that end of our driveway. With truck in 4-wheel, I don't think we'd make it up hill in that deep stuff. I ended up doing a barely functioning zoom type appt with neurologist. She and I took turns blinking out of the zoom room. Just doesn't work well here. Basically I said I'm done with more tests. Nothing to go on. I've been testing for a year. I'll wait another 30 yrs and see what we can find. She did laugh at that. And said I'm coming back in 6 months again. So...that appt actually happened. While that was going on, someone came into our driveway in an odd, old vehicle and plowed us out, down in the barnyard and that mess at the road. Got our truck "cleared for take off". Then tried to come up the driveway but his rig couldn't handle it. Whoever...just drove off. ??? We have two theories. He'd driven by before but we don't know him. But he might have just noted the truck down there and decided to make sure we could get out. Or S contacted him to get us out???? OR the Senior Coalition is active in this county. One guy had called us and said he couldn't deliver cuz we're so clogged with snow. We said we understand and don't know where our snowplow guy is. He might have contacted this person with the old rig to come get us out. But God knows..... So we packed up the ice fishing sled with things we needed to attend this class tonite. Took the same trail we've used to get to the ducks. Slid purse and bag and a change of shoes in sled down the hill and over to the truck. I wore snowpants and high boots to get thru the deep snow. Went down a couple times...deep snow is so annoying!! I went to the truck and got it ready. DH put the ducks/goose inside - they'd had a chance to see the sun. They have built in snowshoes so they can walk on top of the snow. We were able to get to a class about 'lead' things and certify again. 4 hours but quite interesting. Different than a previous one so long ago. So now we're official again. But we had to change from boots, etc. to shoes for the class, and then back again at 11pm when we got home. THEN pull sled UP HILL. I gulped in so much frigid air, I was doubling over. I couldn't get breath. Painful to breathe. DH took over the sled when we got to the HILL. He was only in a sweatshirt (today was nicely warm) and he was freezing at this dark hour. I had a flashlight but still have zero balance if I can't see the hill I'm climbing. I went to my knees or an abrupt SIT several times. Rough to walk in the boot prints we'd been making on that hill. Tripping if I didn't follow the boot prints tho. And I couldn't keep up to DH. Had to sit and gulp O2. Ack...it was a horrible hill climb. However it was a beautiful moon lit night! Enough to see...but not the variations of depth in snow. DH got up before me but ...I did make it. Then up our 15 stairs. Both of us. I was in pain for breathing for about 20 min. I don't want to do that again. I'd take it slower but it was COLD! But we're both very pleased to get this event checked off the To Do list!!! I'm gonna put a bounty out on S, our missing snowplow guy. Probably the only one who knows the driveway well enough to get this mess at the top outta here! I have one more medical appt tomorrow but it's in afternoon and DH will go for groceries - fresh stuff and whatever. Then we'll be getting home in the later afternoon. Maybe come home to all the driveway done??? But warmer so we will NOT race up that steep hill at 8,500' elevation. Not training for the Olympics! My breathing diaphragm and bronchial still hurt but not nearly as bad now. I'll have to keep an eye on that tho. Weak spot. What A Day....Past 5 days have been challenging. Need a break. Even us tough old mountain folks have a limit. Hmph! I think OLD is the key word. MtRider ...got thru another day.
  9. I'm waiting to see if I'm going to make my neurology appt or not. I have a call in to them saying I'm still stuck with deep snow in our long driveway. Told S that I have an appt I had to wait 6 months for....but due to the Snowmaggedon here, his cell mailbox is full and I haven't heard from him since Thurs. He's probably brain-dead due to snowplowing all hours of the day ...and night if the place has lights. He has to plow here in the morning cuz the sun hits in the afternoon. It makes the driveway (which has an end-over-end car tumble if you slide off one side) way too slick to plow. Am I repeating myself? Don't know what I've said to who.... Called neurologist office and left message about not being plowed out yet but expecting at any time....maybe. Doc wanted to see me in 3 months at the Oct appt. 6 months was soonest on her calendar. Today. Hmph! DH and I will probably both go down to see to the ducks and WADE over to the top of the driveway near the road. Not sure we can shovel what the road snowplow left up there. Yards of sprayed snow usually PACKED TIGHT. 2 swipes for the blade on a truck. A "thousand hours of sweat" for a shovel wielded by an old person . And....I might miss a different med. appt tomorrow too. We may or may not miss a class we're signed up for tonite. DH is supposed to work with his new (former) client Wed/Thurs. Next week is nearly a clear calendar. Well, hey. At least we didn't have a house fire like my friend did yesterday. Haven't heard an update on her today. Church folks were getting over there to help with generator, etc yesterday. Very thankful we had no power outage. The second snowfall was just under an inch - no big deal. Thankfully. MtRider ...don't think we'll be moving to Alaska any time soon.
  10. Martian, I envy your ambition to get everything organized now that you've got more time. I've got time but ...energy keeps getting bled out by....all sorts of things. Doesn't take much. Necie...you make me tired just reading about up and down and make this and cut that and..... Jealous! That's all. Glad to hear you're getting better, Little Sister. Don't have a relapse tho. Kinda glad we're not out in the community much in these days of colds, flu, etc. Happy Anniversary, Euphrasyne and dh. Nice device. Thot it looked like what Annarchy has. All-in-one ...good in our small space. I like IntantPot for that multipurpose too. Praying you have Happy Dreams, Jeepers. Finally, huh? OOTO.... I can relate to that! When it's been in a pile by the door, yeah I know where it is. After putting it away in a drawer - out of sight/out of mind. Better to leave it in plain sight, right? That's my story and I'm sticking with it. Obviously, from the look of my tiny house. We're still stuck at the top of our driveway. I'm finding out that the dog and the DH get stir-crazy when they can't get out and ....just. get. out. Hmm..... I'm so used to it, as long as we have power, I haven't noticed. Except for the extra labor and paying attention when I go down for the ducks/goose. That's been heavy labor and sketchy footing. My folks were always like that too. HAD to get in truck and go "to town" ..tho they lived in the town but not the center where stores are. EVERY day but Sunday. My mom is still going buggy cuz she can't. Didn't know DH had that but yeah, he's always going to get library stuff exchanged for new stuff. Or to do this or that. He and dog jump in car and go and DO. Since we're stuck at the top of the hill, can't even walk dog on road. Did let her just run for a few minutes. That dog can run thru this deep stuff in the woods. Came back in 5 minutes - and plows into the house for a drink of water! LOL They have cleared our road....and left an insurmountable pile of snow at the top of our lane. Counting on S to arrive in the morning and clear that mound on his way into our driveway. We need to leave by noon. If he doesn't wake us up roaring up with his truck and plow blade, I'll give him a call. We really have a lot of snow all over these parts of CO. Even by OUR standards. 4 FEET in some places not far from here! All sorts of things going on. In fact, pray for a woman from our church. Her house caught on fire today....and her road hadn't been plowed yet! She called me to put it on the Prayer Request. Well, YEAH! Fortunately, it started under the porch and they saved the house. Mostly. She was running out of charge in her cell so I didn't get the details when she called back to say: Fire is out. House is damaged but ok. No electricity cuz she has solar and.....dunno. She's not going to motel but will rely on the fireplace for heat. But the whole church heard about it when I put the word out. Someone was going over with a genny tonite and women's group will make some hot meals for her. We've got another older woman with a recent fall ( this snow!!) and a non-related neck surgery coming up. I was busy on the Prayer Requests today. ....but her road did get plowed with the fire trucks just behind the plow! My day gets busy without leaving my chair! MtRider ....gonna be a looong day tomorrow!
  11. Wow, you're on a roll, Necie! Glad your cold is getting better, Little Sister. Do NOT get up and labor intensively until you're completely over this! Think of your GGD. A relapse wouldn't be good. Much better picture without all the modern do dads of wires and telephone poles, Annarchy! I hear ya all on Maui. We'll be there soon .....if the April solar eclipse doesn't set off massive earthquakes in diverse places ....or nukes don't fly......or China doesn't take over Hawai'i. I am kidding but... I don't think I've been in a time when any of those things don't necessarily stay in our Disaster Fiction books. Kinda weird, huh? MtRider
  12. Remembering the BEAUTIFUL ocean (my favorite part) and kayaking did lift my mood while gasping for breath and heaving another shovelful of snow out from under the car. Today was sunny again like yesterday. I had a very slow start but finally got it all together. Got dressed for going down with water to take care of ducks/goose. Snowpants over jeans. Tank top/Tshirt with jacket. Spare gloves in pockets - in case first pair gets wet. Cuz... snow gets soppy... Yes! Remembered the yellow lens sunglasses and was very thankful for them. Same 5 gallon Reliance jug set sideways rolling on the ice sled. Ski pole to help me keep upright on the downhill of the driveway and thru the even bigger drifted snow on the berm. Crossing that to get over to duckhouse was a bit laborious. Again, getting close to waist-high, but I could stay on the lower end of the drift to some extent. Arrive! Take of jacket!!! Hung it on the fence but put the Emergency YELLOW vest thing on over the Tshirt. DH is watching from house/porch - but thru the bushes. He can see the yellow. I also have an Emergency Alert button that does work from the duck pen. He'd hear that go off in the house - and tell the emergency people...yeah, we've got this or....better send the Fire/Rescue folks. Never had to call them in the decades we've been here. Shoveling this dense, heavy stuff is what exhausts me. Deep snow in front of their duckhouse door and the yard gate and inside the yard. 16" maybe. So I'm shoveling enough room to open door and gate and maneuver. Large drifts of snow close by but I'm not tackling them - yet. Felt like I was working inside a cup. Got inside finally and they had barely any water left. Water birds. They mess around with water! Flies all over. Knew I had to do this today. Dumped out thin ice, etc. Grabbed disgusting food tray and dumped it out in the snow. Snow is good for scrubbing that tray clean! Got tray and big round water container back in. Filled with 5 gallons. Filled lot of feed; heavy on the seeds for oils. More shell-grit for their grinding of food. More straw but I'd put that pretty thick. Put straw outside the door in the low spot that will fill with water and freeze to slick ice by tomorrow. Straw will give traction. Opened the sunny side window for a while but closed it before going up. Then had a wonderful time with the shovel. Clear at least enough snow in the immediate area for bringing in food/water. Opened the gate and cleared an area for them to be outside - once we can do duck-care morning and evening again. In other words, when S clears the driveway. Tomorrow early - before the sun begins to make the snow heavy and down-right greasy. SO slick in a half-melt. I had keys to truck but I was definitely not going to wade hip deep any further. I could see that the truck created drifts to form on either side but blocked a good route in the middle. We could actually get out to the road (plowed already) and go if we can't get the car out. Trudging UP that crazy driveway, I had to stop and sit on the water jug....or lean against the aspen tree half-way up that I use sometimes. DH was still watching my progress. Bugs him that with his back, I end up doing so much heavy stuff right now. I'm really okay but that shoveling does exhaust me. That's what I looked like this morning after shoveling car loose. Took hours to stabilize my legs today. Then I had to do it all over again..... I finally made it up to level ground again. And UP 15 steps to porch. Steaming hot, and dripping wet from exertion. Face red! Had to rest before getting into shower to cool and wash off. Even working in the Tshirt! So here I am, no horse riding for a couple weeks....and doing all this....and I have a neurology appt on Monday. What can I say. I eat adrenaline for breakfast! Finally sat down and DH made us lunch. Haven't done much more today, obviously. But I'm walking ok tonite. ....except when I looked at the Doppler Radar for our area. ....Whaaa....???? Went out the door to look! MtRider .....it's snowing
  13. Electricty is still on. Others have regained their power...not all. Remember how I was getting confused here... Thursday nite around midnight? .... see above post.... The High pressure systems were dancing with the Low pressure systems. They can't be in the same place. The Highs chased the Lows into AZ and NM. Check! That happened .....and we've had two sunny days. Check! Had that. But the forecast I was looking at on Thurs night predicted the Highs ultimately LOST THE BATTLE and ran back up NW again...today. The Lows are repopulating Colorado.... MtRider It's snowing.
  14. And so it begins for another season..... ....yep, snow storms don't look so bad... MtRider ...I'm scared to death of tornadoes
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